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See becomes saw

saw friends yeah i saw friends or i saw some friends sounds a little better yeah good i'll type that one in oh you got it she's on it okay okay yeah seesaw there's also a toy in...

Course: Everyday English from the startSection: Talking about the pastSubtitles: en

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i

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saw

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friends yeah i saw friends or i saw some

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friends sounds a little better yeah good

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i'll type that one in

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oh you got it she's on it

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okay okay yeah seesaw there's also a toy

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in a playground called a seesaw so one

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like it's like this and one person sits

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here one person sits there and then you

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go back and forth up and down and it's

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called a seesaw which i don't know why

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it's called that

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um

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yeah for example um someone could say

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oh um

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what move if you went to the movies to

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the movie theater

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someone would ask you what movie did you

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see last night and you would say i saw

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dune

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dude is that a real movie yeah it's like

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really popular these days it's

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everyone's talking about it i have no

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idea what it's about i might know of i

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think timothy chalamet isn't it but i'm

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not 100 sure yeah it's okay we're we're

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old yeah we're oh i'm almost

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as clueless as you here i don't know

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anything okay

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i mean i know things just not that

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okay uh so

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oh fun i saw a man with a saw good oh

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that's another meaning for the word so

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saw

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is the past the simple past for c

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but saw it's also a tool it's a thing

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you use to

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cut wood

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we're using a saw yeah so it's made of

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metal and if you have a piece of wood

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yeah you might cut yeah it with the saw

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it's like if you cut a tree down with a

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saw

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okay

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the next one

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can

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yeah this is a modal verb and

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uh to make can past tense

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you say could

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so

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um

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now i can speak

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a few languages but when i was younger

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i could not speak

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any languages no when i was younger i

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could only speak one language

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i could only speak english until

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i was 16 or 17 years old

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so can is to be able to so when you say

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i could only speak english you could

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also say i was able to speak english

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that's another way of saying the same

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thing so i could

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only speak english when i was a child

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okay

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good emily i have a question for you of

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course yes did you have any pets when

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you were younger

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uh yes i had five dogs really i had no

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idea i never

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heard of that yeah we were dog people

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so

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